Intel makes SSD 510 official, promises 500MB per second

After brief teases last Thursday, Intel on Monday confirmed the SSD 510. The flash drive series is now billed as the fastest mainstream SSD on the market and can peak at 500MB sequential read speeds, twice as fast as most earlier drives. Sequential writes are even more improved and, at 315MB per second, are the fastest overall and about three times better than Intel’s past drives…